Welshman will meet incoming manager on Wednesday to discuss his Old Trafford future

Ryan Giggs will hold talks with Louis van Gaal on Wednesday to discuss his future at Manchester United with the Holland coach expected to be confirmed as the club’s new manager on Thursday.

Giggs, appointed as interim manager for the final four games of the season following David Moyes’s dismissal last month, is due to accompany United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward to meet Van Gaal, who has ring-fenced Wednesday as a rest day for the Dutch squad at their pre-World Cup training camp in Hoenderloo.

With Woodward due to face questions over the club’s disastrous season from investors on Thursday when United release their third-quarter financial results, there is a desire within Old Trafford to confirm Van Gaal’s appointment to end the uncertainty surrounding the team over the past month.

But while Van Gaal has already discussed transfer targets and player departures with Woodward, Giggs’s future remains unresolved.

It is understood that Van Gaal is open to the prospect of handing Giggs a senior role in his backroom team, but the Welshman has yet to make a decision over his intentions and could regard the anticipated departures of coaches Phil Neville and Nicky Butt as an unwelcome development.

Paul Scholes, who has assisted Giggs on an informal basis since Moyes’s departure, is also unlikely to be offered a role by Van Gaal with the former midfielder due to attend a meeting on Thursday at Old Trafford to learn his future.

Giggs insisted earlier this week that he remained undecided about whether to extend his playing career beyond his 41st birthday in November, while he also harbours a desire to remain in coaching and pursue a management career.

But with Van Gaal due to sit down with Giggs on Wednesday - the location of the meeting is unknown, but will not take place in Manchester - the former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach is expected to offer United’s most decorated player the opportunity to stay on at Old Trafford in a coaching capacity.